Starlink's Laser System Is Beaming 42M GB of Data per Day

12 pointspjf2 years ago11 comments

[dupe]

Edit: except for the ones about the headline since the headline is fixed on the other thread.

If a number is too low to make a good headline, multiply it by some large number, e.g. 86400 (seconds per day), 300 million citizens, ...

Which is odd since 4 PB/day already sounds impressive.

That's only to people who know what that means.

Also known as 42 petabytes. Or 42 trillion kilobytes. Or 336 quadrillion bits.

If I did the calculations right this puts starlink at roughly .32% of all internet traffic per second.

It's not clear if they're double counting the traffic across all the lasers in the traffic path or if it's only in and out of the laser mesh.

42M GB really had me scratching my head.

I like to think of this as 1.32 billion giga quarter bits myself. Quarter bits make everything bigger.

Stupid headline is stupid...